Berilah peluang kepada diri anda

Berilah peluang kepada diri anda untuk berjaya.
Ianya bermaksud, apabila sekali anda telah membuat keputusan untuk mencuba sesuatu perkara atau bisnes, dua perkara berikut adalah satu kemestian, iaitu:
1) Berusaha bersungguh-sungguh untuk menjayakannya.
2) Berilah masa untuk mencapainya.

Berusaha bersunguh-sungguh ialah melakukannya dengan tekun, sabar dan istiqamah. Anda telah membuat keputusan untuk menyertai industri ini. Tujuannya tidak lain dan tidak bukan ialah untuk berjaya terutama sekali untuk mencapai "financial freedom". So apa lagi yang mesti anda tunggu. Berusahalah bersunguh-sungguh. Ini perniagaan anda. Yang yang menentukan hala tuju perniagaan ini. Hendak ke belakang atau ke hadapan.

Apabila anda telah meletakkan usaha yang bersungguh-sungguh dalam melakukannya, berilah ia MASA untuk berkembang. Berilah masa yang munasabah. Katakan anda perlukan 1 tahun menjadi Agency Supervisor. Jadi rancangkanlah dengan jelas bagaimana anda boleh mencapainya.

Peluang sudah berada di depan anda. Apakah anda hendak membiarkan ia berlalu begitu sahaja? Keputusan yang anda buat pada hari akan menentukan di manakah anda berada pada 2 tahun atau 5 tahun akan datang.

Katakan kepada diri anda sendiri, "Jika aku ingin melakukan sesuatu, aku akan melakukannya dengan bersungguh-sungguh sehingga berjaya".

Jangan menyerah, teruslah berusaha!

Ini adalah petikan dari "Sabri SaifulSham". Mungkin anda telah pernah membacanya. Jika sudah pernah, bacalah sekali lagi. Jika belum, teruskanlah membaca.

Hari ini saya ingin berkongsi sesuatu petikan yang menarik
dari sebuah buku yang sedang saya baca.

Tajuk bukunya "Bloomberg by Bloomberg", tulisan
Michael Bloomberg. Beliau adalah pengasas kepada
Bloomberg Channel dan kini menjadi Datuk Bandar New
York.
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"We made mistakes, of course. Most of them were
omissions we didn't think of when we initially wrote the
software. We fixed them by doing it over and over, again
and again. We do the same today. While our competitors are
still sucking their thumbs trying to make the design
perfect, we're already on prototype version No. 5.

By the time our rivals are ready with wires and screws, we
are on version No. 10. It gets back to planning versus
acting. We act from day one; others plan how to plan - for
months."


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Baca ayat pertama:

We made MISTAKES. OF COURSE

Dan baca juga ayat terakhir berulang kali.

We act from day one; OTHERS PLAN HOW TO PLAN-for
months.

Adakah anda tergolong dalam "others"?

Apa pendapat anda mengenai petikan ini? Pada saya,
kita kena mula merealisasikan hasrat kita. Tidak cukup
hanya merancang. Dan untuk merealisasikan itu, we must
do, what we must do. Kesilapan mungkin berlaku, tetapi
as long as kita belajar dari kesilapan tersebut, it's ok.

Quote of the Day

“The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”

– Vince Lombardi, football coach

Plan and Prepare in Advance. by Brian Tracy

Use A Time Planner
A time planner, broken down by day, hour and minute, organized in advance, can be one of the most powerful, personal productivity tools of all. It enables you to see where you can consolidate and create blocks of time for concentrated work.

Eliminate All Distractions
During this working time, you turn off the telephone, eliminate all distractions and work non-stop. One of the best work habits of all is for you to get up early and work at home in the morning for several hours. You can get three times as much work done at home without interruptions as you ever could in a busy office where you are surrounded by people and bombarded by phone calls.

Create an Office in the Air
When you fly on business, you can create your office in the air by planning your work thoroughly before you depart. When the plane takes off, you can work non-stop for the entire flight. You will be amazed at how much work you can go through when you work steadily in an airplane, without interruptions.

Make Every Minute Count
One of the keys to high levels of performance and productivity is for you to make every minute count. Use travel and transition time, what is often called "gifts of time" to complete small chunks of larger tasks.

Remember, the pyramids were built one block at a time. A great life and a great career is built one task, and often, one part of a task, at a time. Your job in time management is to deliberately and creatively organize the concentrated time periods you need to get your key jobs done well, and on schedule.

Action Exercises
Here are two steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, think continually of different ways that you can save, schedule and consolidate large chunks of time. Use this time to work on important tasks with the most significant long-term consequences.

Second, make every minute count. Work steadily and continuously without diversion or distraction by planning and preparing your work in advance. Most of all, keep focused on the most important results for which you are responsible.

Dari Penjara ke Wall Street

Baru-baru ini saya terbaca satu kisah di Reader's digest bulan Januari 2007. Kisah hidup Chris Gardner yang saya rasakan cukup menarik seperti tajuk yang diberikan oleh penulisnya yang berbunyi dari penjara ke wall street.

Gardner yang dilahirkan tanpa mengenali bapa kandungnya, kemudian didera oleh bapa angkat, pernah dipenjarakan dan bertahun hidup di jalanan bersama anak kecilnya.

Ketika berumur 29 tahun, bekerja sebagai jurujual, suatu hari ditempat meletak kereta dia terpandang sebuah ferrari merah sedang mencari 'parking'. Sebaik sahaja pemandunya berhenti, lantas dia bertanya, "What do you do, and how do you do it?"

Pemilik ferrari itu menjelaskan bahawa dia broker saham. Gardner bertanya lagi, berapakah bayarannya. Broker saham yang ditemuinya itu memperolehi USD80,000 sebulan. Setahu Gardner ketika itu, jurujual terbaik di tempat dia bekerja memperolehi USD80,000 setahun. Jadi, maklumat ini sungguh membuat dia teruja. Gardner ingin menjadi broker saham.

Untuk menjadi seorang broker saham dia sekurang-kurangnya memerlukan ijazah MBA. Malangnya Gardner tidak punya apa-apa. Dia hanya berpendidikan rendah, apalagi untuk menjejak kaki ke universiti. Dia tidak mempunyai kenalan politik juga tidak punya wang untuk belajar.

Selama berbulan-bulan dia mencari peluang untuk menjadi broker di wall street. Sambil itu dia melakukan berbagai pekerjaan untuk menampung hidupnya. Dia pernah mencuci bangunan, memunggut sampah, membersih halaman orang dan juga membaiki bumbung rumah. Semua sudah dia lakukan namun cita-cita untuk menjad broker saham sentiasa membara di dalam jiwanya.

Suatu ketika dia di tahan polis kerana kesalahan tidak membayar 'parking'. Akibatnya dia dipenjarakan selama beberapa bulan. Anaknya dilarikan oleh bekas teman wanitanya. Akhirnya dia dibebaskan dari penjara.

Cita-citanya untuk menjadi broker saham di wall street tidak pernah padam. Selepas keluar penjara dia mendapat satu temuduga. Dia menghadiri temuduga itu dengan hanya memakai 'windbreaker' dan seluar 'bellbottom'. Kerana simpati dan ingin memberi peluang, Gardner berjaya dalam temuduga itu.

Dia mula mejadi pelatih broker saham. Dalam pada masa yang sama bekas teman wanitanya menyerahkan anaknya kembali kerana tidak sanggup menjaganya lagi. Gardner berbesar hati untuk menjaga anaknya kembali. Tetapi malang sekali dia tidak mempunyai tempat tinggal. Jadi di siang hari dia membawa anaknya ke tempat kerja, dan dia merempat di jalanan bersana anaknya.

Akhirnya, kisah duka hidupnya menjadi kenangan. Gardner berjaya mencipta nama di wall street dan memenuhi impiannya menjadi seorang broker saham. Dalam tahun 1987 dia membuka syarikat sendiri, Gardner Rich & Co. di Chicago dan membeli ferrarinya sendiri.

Gardner tidak melihat kisahnya sebagai sebuah cerita dongeng kosong. Katanya, "mine is a story of how to empower yourself and beat the odds stacked against you. My life could have been easily derailed by domestic violences and homeless, but I made a choice to not let those things sink me. You can break the destruction cycles that ensnare you. Be smart, have a plan and hold on to the people you love"

Two Principles for Financial Success: by Brian Tracy

The Two Great Principles for Success
There are two great principles for achieving financial success. The first Principle is what we call the law of attraction. The law of attraction says that you are a living magnet. It says that your thoughts create a force field of energy that radiates out from you and attracts back into your life people and circumstances in harmony with them. Any thought you have, combined with an emotion, positive or negative, radiates out from you and attracts back into your life the people, circumstances, ideas and opportunities consistent with it.

How to Attract the Success You Desire
Many people feel that this is perhaps the most important of all mental laws. It says that if you have a very clear idea in your mind of your desired goal, to become wealthy, and you can hold that idea in your mind on a continuing basis, you will inevitably draw into your life the resources that you need in order to achieve it. Every person who has become wealthy or successful has become wealthy and successful as a result of holding the idea of wealth and success in their mind long enough and hard enough, until they drew into their lives the resources they needed to accomplish it.

Your World Reflects Your Thoughts
The second principle is called the law of correspondence. This mental law is very powerful. It says, "as within, so without." It says that your outer world is like a mirror that reflects back to you what is going on in your inner world. And this law of correspondence says that everything that happens outside of you corresponds to something that's going on inside of you. When we say that your outer world is a reflection of your inner world, we mean both at a conscious and at a subconscious level.

Visualize Your Goals Clearly
If you consciously believe that you have the ability to achieve your goals and you can hold a picture of those goals clearly in your mind long enough and hard enough, eventually your outer world will correspond with it.

Three Reflections of Success
There are three places where we see this law of correspondence. First of all, your outer world of people will correspond exactly with your own attitude. You will always see your attitude reflected back to you in the faces and the behaviors of the people around you. If you have a positive, optimistic attitude, people will respond to you almost immediately, even before you open your mouth, in a positive and cheerful way.

Relationships Show You Who You Are
The second area where we see the law of correspondence is in your relationships. Your relationships will always mirror back to you exactly the kind of a person you are. When you are happy and optimistic and at peace, your relationships will be happy and harmonious and loving. But when your thinking is disrupted or negative for any reason, consciously or unconsciously, this will be immediately reflected in your relationships.

Inner and Outer Wealth
The third place you see the law of correspondence is with regard to your wealth. Your external world of wealth and financial accomplishment will be a mirror image of your inner world of preparation. The only part of the equation that you can control is your conscious thoughts, and if you can keep your conscious thoughts on what you want, on your images of wealth and affluence, eventually your external world of reality and experiences will reflect it back to you.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to apply these principles in your financial life:

First, guard your thoughts carefully. Whatever you think about, combined with the emotions of desire or fear, you will attract into your life. Be sure that you are attracting what you want by continuing to think only about what you want.

Second, keep feeding your mind with new information, ideas and pictures of the person you want to be and the life you want to live. By creating this inner attitude of mind, you change the outer aspects of your reality.

Earn Ten Times As Much: by Brian Tracy

Here's an exercise for you; imagine that it's possible for you to earn ten times your current annual wage. If you're earning $25,000, imagine for a moment that it's possible for you to earn $250,000, a 1000% increase.

Don't Sell Yourself Short
The first reaction of most people to that exercise is to smile briefly and then to begin thinking about why it isn't possible. One man said to me, "If you knew how many years it's taken for me to get to what I'm earning today you wouldn't be suggesting that I could earn ten times as much."

Never A Good Excuse
Mark Twain once wrote that there are a thousand excuses for every failure but never a good reason. The tragedy of the average American is that whereas his or her main preoccupation seems to be money, or the lack thereof, the average person has the inherent potential to earn far more than he or she is doing currently.

Is the manager earning $250,000 per year ten times as smart as the manager earning $25,000? 10 times as experienced? Does he or she work 10 times harder? Of course not. None of these are physically or mentally possible, but there are people in every business earning many times more than others with the same average age, experience and intelligence.

The Results Are In
In fact, a few years ago in New York, a thousand men and women were selected at random and tested for I.Q. Between the one having the highest I.Q. in this sample and the one with the lowest, there was a difference of only 2 1/2 times. But between the person earning the most, who by the way, was not the one with the highest I.Q. and the one earning the least, who was not the one with the lowest I.Q., there was a difference of 100X in income.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to start increasing your earnings.

First, identify the highest earning, most successful people in your field and find out what it is that they are doing differently from others who aren’t doing as well. Copy them every day.

Second, set a goal to double your earnings over the next two or three years and then figure out how to accomplish that goal.

Boost Your Productivity: By Brian Tracy

Push to the Top
All successful people are very productive. They work longer hours and they work better hours. They get a lot more done than the average person. They get paid more and promoted faster. They are highly respected and esteemed by everyone around them. They become leaders and role models. Inevitably, they rise to the top of their fields and to the top of their income ranges, and so can you.

Everything is Learnable
Every single one of these tested and proven strategies for managing your time and doubling your productivity is learnable through practice and repetition. Each of these methods will eventually become a habit of both thinking and working.

The Payroll is Remarkable
When you begin applying these techniques to your work and to your life, your self-esteem, self-confidence, self-respect and sense of personal pride will go up immediately. The pay off for you will be tremendous, for the rest of your life.

Make A Decision!
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocal decision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something. Significant change starts when you decide to either get in or get out, either fish or cut bait.
The Vital Quality of Success
Decisiveness is one of the most important qualities of successful and happy men and women, and decisiveness is developed through practice and repetition, over and over again until it becomes as natural to you as breathing in and breathing out.

Why People Are Poor
The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.

Become An Expert
Decide today that you are going to become an expert in time management and personal productivity, no matter how long it takes or how much you invest in it. Resolve today that you are going to practice these principles, over and over again until they become second nature.

Action Exercises
Here are two steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, hold your own feet to the fire. Resolve to start earlier, work harder and stay later. Don’t let yourself off the hook.

Second, become an expert in time management. Learn and practice time management techniques every day until they become habits.

Banyakkan membaca

Saya selalu cuba membaca jika ada masa terluang. Baca apa sahaja yang ada di keliling anda. Kalau boleh sesuatu mengenai apa yang sedang anda lakukan. Jika anda perunding unit amanah atau perancang kewangan... bacalah apa sahaja mengenai kewangan. Percayalah ia akan banyak membantu anda ketika membuat 'presentation' perniagaan anda.

Juga bacalah artikel-artikel motivasi untuk membantu anda menjadi lebih produktif. Kita ini hanya manusia biasa. Manusia biasa yang cuba menjadi luar biasa. Bacalah apa sahaja yang anda rasa ia boleh membantu anda. Juga tanpa anda sedari anda akan membantu orang lain menjadi lebih produktif dengan pengetahuan anda.